The point is that their oafishness only becomes obvious after a sudden change in their social station.

A blog piece and comments without vitriol, bad manners or general oafishness.

What had passed at first glance for oafishness became on closer inspection a brooding thoughtfulness.

And it was rancid cornpone: oafishness passed off as bawdiness.

The show frequently contrasted her intelligence and beauty with Lobanov's oafishness, although the two seemed to be happy together.

The club's early years were marked by drunkenness, duels, fist fights and oafishness.

The Americans were mainly technical advisers, a cut above that sort of oafishness, and were anyway on their strictest best behaviour.

Lages cursed himself for his oafishness.

Wilma and Betty will also occasionally plot acts of revenge on their husbands for their oafishness.

In the 1950's, Ike's decade, oafishness was widely respected by Americans while evidence of a sound intelligence was regarded with suspicion or contempt.

He also wrote that Parr "was an extreme social rebel" who "concealed a formidable and well-read intelligence behind a stylised oafishness".

Her husband's failure to defend her against the oafishness of their host at a dinner party has led her to the conclusion that all men are killers.

Mr. Modine's Joe is a master of feigned oafishness, of outrageous double-entendres, of amazingly arrogant back talk.

"Bad enough that your oafishness should disgrace me before king and court, and doom me to yawn my life away in that bear's den you call a castle.

Ron Hauge, writer of the episode, wanted to do an episode where he would use Homer's qualities such as oafishness, brute strength, thickness, and loyalty, for good.

That was Limbaugh's ambition, nearly realized when he went on ESPN, which was then shot down by his own oafishness about Donovan McNabb.

As well as it can be explained in Earth context, they were teenagers forever whatever their age: and they seemed to age not at all after they had attained their high oafishness.

During his appearance in The Sensational She-Hulk, writer/artist John Byrne treated Mahkizmo as a comedy character by accentuating the character's oafishness to grotesque proportions.

Even with all the skullduggery and oafishness and brutality of big-time sports, there were events that were exciting, and people I was glad to cover, some of them even likable and admirable.

At first, I think the umpire should toss Clemens, but after he blows the Mets away, I realize banishment would have been an overreaction, penalizing the Yankees for the oafishness of one man.

One of them, well rendered here, always turns me to kasha: when the young oaf, in all his frightened young oafishness, finally gets to speak to the girl of his dreams and she's nice to him!

Many a Siegfried gets by on little more than oafishness and muscularity, but Mr. Johns tempers the young hero's swaggering loutishness with touches of a more human, and sometimes even fleetingly sentimental, side.

Only the plain-clothes thugs of the security police, who can easily be told by their well-fed oafishness, their training shoes and anoraks, go out of their way to move close in and stare down at anyone writing.

He readily adopts the cultivated oafishness that is pop culture's dominant idiom: one day, as we were driving through Westwood, he pointed out the restaurant where he had first met his wife, Susie, twenty-two years earlier.

"By blaming the booze, we sidestep the uncomfortable question of why the English, so widely admired for their courtesy, reserve and restraint, should also be renowned for their oafishness, crudeness and violence," Ms. Fox writes.